Marian’s Roots and Ramblesblog, Nov. 29, 2011, commented on Diane’s “Tales from the Courthouse” column in the Fall 2011 issue of American Ancestors magazine: “I strongly encourage everyone to read this article as an example of the kind of approach you should be taking with all your genealogical challenges and brick walls.”

Red Room writers
website, Jan. 20, 2010 review praises The Naked Quaker as a
“delightful non-fiction collection” of
“amazing tales” about our colonial
ancestors. “Perhaps the most surprising
element of the book is how alive the
characters seem….”

Stiletto Gang literary
blog, Jan. 7, 2010
describes Diane’s Naked Quaker book:
“This splendidly fun book runs down some of
the highlights of 17th-century
New England police blotter: violent
fisticuffs in church, highwaymen, sex
scandals, theft, cheating, witchcraft. I
mean, it might as well be an episode of
Maury.”

The Barnes & Noble Review,
Sept. 2007:
“Diane Rapaport’s
previous book was New England
Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists
and Historians, so it seems only
right that she would share her own most exciting
archival finds. As its title suggests, The Naked
Quaker bares seldom-seen aspects of
Colonial New England life. . . .
Glimpses into a vanished
world.”

Law Library Journal,
Spring 2007 - Morris L. Cohen,
Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, in
his article “Researching Legal History in the
Digital Age” (p. 381) cites Diane’s New
England Court Records book as a “helpful
bibliography” for locating colonial court files.